Great weather to look at Incline Real Estate, market is firming with many sales reported this week including two of my best listings going into contract.

Tahoe's record-setting dry spell will be around for at least another week.  This is just weird weather.  Hopefully the ski resorts can make it over the hump till we see a storm, any storm.  I am amazed as to how good Northstar is holding up, but even they will start to deteriorate if something does not show soon.

The conditions in the Pacific that have blocked every storm for more than six weeks are not going to be changing before the middle of next week. A ridge of high pressure will continue to send our storms north and then east, missing California and the Sierra.

One of these storms is passing north and east of Tahoe tomorrow and Saturday. It will settle in the Great Basin of Nevada and Utah, but its western boundary will likely be around Reno or even a little east. The system is forecast to drag some cold arctic air south with it, cooling our daytime highs by 10 degrees or so, back toward normal for this time of year. In its wake, brisk winds out of the east and northeast will push toward the Sierra crest.

By Sunday the high pressure should be in control again, pushing temperatures back toward record levels through Tuesday, when another of these "inside slider" systems is forecast to move through Washington and Oregon and into Nevada. 

High temperatures

Lake Level

Thursday 52
Friday 43
Saturday 45
Sunday 47

7000 feet

Thursday 52
Friday 47
Saturday 40
Sunday 47



TAHOE OUTDOORS: Adventure slide show series

Eric Perlman is a director, producer, Emmy-winning cameraman, editor, and composer producing international adventure films and commercials for more than 35 years. Eric is also a high energy Tahoe go-getter you've seen around on skis, rock, and trail. This slideshow will have you planning a trip late that evening so you can go touch some warm rock! The show is called "20 YEARS OF STONE---Evolution of modern climbing and the modern climbing movie." The show starts at 7 p.m. at the Olympic Plaza Bar above Dave's deli at the foot of the mountain in Squaw Valley. Sponsored by the Backcountry store in Truckee.

Snow Survey finds conditions driest on record

The California Department of Water Resources monthly snow survey for January found conditions around Tahoe the driest since the practice began. The surveyor had to search for a patch of snow 4 inches deep, which yielded just .14 inches of water content. That was just 1 percent of average and the lowest water content found since the surveys near Echo Summit began in 1964. More broadly, the Sierra snowpack registered at just 19 percent of average for the first week in January.